When comparing Combat Monsters vs Star Realms, the Slant community recommends Star Realms for most people. In the question“What are the best card battle games on Android similar to Hearthstone?” Star Realms is ranked 4th while Combat Monsters is ranked 25th. The most important reason people chose Star Realms is:
Asynchronous online play allows for the player to get matched up against a friend or random opponent.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Over 2000 different cards
The card collection is huge. As of August 2015, the game has more than 2000 cards. Of them 1152 are monster cards. The rest are runes, spells, shields, armor types and weapons. There are 16 different races of monsters and 24 special abilities. The variety offers a great bit of deck building options.
Pro Looks good
For an Android game, Combat Monsters has beautiful 3D graphics and animations.
Pro Good single player campaign
Pro Lots of different modes
There is 5 deck mode: standard, horde (monsters only), tribal (one race only), single 50 (no duplicated cards) and pauper (only common and uncommoncards). There is a single player campaign for each deck mode. You can also play online real time or asynchronous games versus other players. You can also play versus the AI, up to 5 of them! And there is adaily challenge that reward you some cards upon victory
Pro Highly strategic
Playing on an actual board game, positioning the monsters and combining their special abilities is key to a victory. You summon cards using mojo that your hero provide each turn, but that you can get as well through a bunch of other means (abilities, special board tile, runes, spells, ...)
Pro Asynchronous online play
Asynchronous online play allows for the player to get matched up against a friend or random opponent.
Pro Bases
Bases are permanent cards on the playing field that each player needs to try and destroy but giving that there is a choice each turn to hit a base or the players ships, it becomes a juggling act of what takes priority to destroy.
Pro Unpredictable
There is no way for the player to know what will be in their hand or what they will eventually be able to purchase, making for every game being unpredictable.
Pro Pass and play multiplayer on a single device
Players can play a multiplayer game locally using a single device by passing the device between the two players for each ones turn. This makes for an easy way to duel when only one device is around.
Pro Single player mode
There is an included single player mode where the player faces off against the CPU.
Cons
Con Design is lacking
More thought, design and production value could have been added to the game to give it a better polished feel, sadly it is not the case as most aspects pass as just serviceable.